This week marks the adoption of the NEB Facility, the first multi-annual budget support tool for the New European Bauhaus from 2025 to 2027. It aims to create and scale up innovative solutions that can revitalise European neighbourhoods through design for sustainability and inclusion.

The NEB Facility will be anchored in the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan 2025-2027 and will have two components: 

• The Research & Innovation component will research and develop innovative out-of-the-box solutions to bring people and green transformation together, with an indicative budget of EUR 120 million per year until 2027. 
• The roll-out component will cover deployment and technical assistance with support from various EU programmes around topics and priorities to be identified. 

The NEB Facility is set to bring stability for investment and creativity, helping the NEB movement unfold its full potential and generate new and improved ways of doing, thinking and policy-making with impactful results. 

The European Commission is working on the next steps, including a consultation process involving Member States, the NEB Community and key stakeholders, such as European networks like ERRIN. Through the work and active engagement of the NEB Task Force, ERRIN has been promoting and sharing the NEB principles and approaches across sectors since its creation in early 2023. ERRIN members have actively contributed to shaping the future of the NEB by providing inputs to the European Commission based on place-based experiences and challenges. These inputs have been collected by ERRIN and submitted to the European Commission consultation process opened in December 2023.

ERRIN has joined the NEB Alliance as one of the founding members, connecting and boosting collaboration opportunities with other relevant projects and initiatives such as CrAFT, LivinginEU, NEB-STAR, Re-value, joining forces and building synergies with other key EU initiatives such as the EU missions.

The ERRIN New European Bauhaus Task Force is now planning a NEB Satellite Event on the role of regions and cities in shaping the future of the NEB. The meeting will present the key findings and recommendations from the ERRIN input paper and showcase successful stories and inspiring examples of embedding NEB principles across sectors and initiatives.

In view of the upcoming project opportunities on the NEB, ERRIN invites all members to stay informed and keep an eye on its new Project Development Tool, which connects members and shares funding opportunities directly pulled from the EU funding portal.